Staten Island, NY – Leaders of the Silent No More Awareness
Campaign, the nation’s largest network of individuals harmed by abortion, say a
new study linking post-traumatic stress disorder with abortion only reinforces
what its members have been saying for years.

“It’s always good when a peer reviewed psychiatric study validates what you
already know in your heart to be true,” said Georgette Forney, co-founder of the
SNMAC. “It’s really only common sense, though, that a mother who undergoes the
trauma of losing her child, whether voluntarily or under coercion from a
boyfriend or parent, would suffer consequences from that trauma.”

The study, published in the journal BMC Psychiatry, evaluated women one month
and then three months after their abortions. It found that 20 percent
experienced post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms after one month; 61 percent
did after three months.

“This is more evidence that abortion hurts women,” added Janet Morana, another
co-founder of SNMAC. “The cause and effect link between abortion and mental
health problems is obvious, painfully obvious. It’s far beyond time for the
abortion industry to stop disrespecting women and tell them the truth about what
abortion will do to them.”
Since the launching of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign in 2003, 2,326
women and men have shared their testimonies publicly at over 200 gatherings in
44 states and six countries where more than 15,000 spectators have heard the
truth about abortion’s negative aftereffects. More than 4,100 people are
registered to be Silent No More. Raising awareness about the hurtful
aftermath of abortion and the help that is available to cope with the pain are
two of the Campaign’s goals.

The Silent No More Awareness Campaign is a joint project
of Anglicans for Life and Priests for Life. For more information, please
visit www.silentnomoreawareness.org.